Vivian Davis Figures

Vivian Davis Figures (24 January 1957-) was a member of the Alabama Senate from 28 January 1997, succeeding her late husband Michael Figures.

Biography
Vivian Davis Figures was born in Mobile, Alabama on 24 January 1957, and she received her bachelor of science degree from the University of New Haven in Connecticut, excelling in management science. She would return to Alabama to attend the Jones School of Law, but she was forced to discontinue her legal education when her husband Michael Figures died in 1996. Figures had served on the Mobile City Council for three years when her husband died, and she remained on the council until 1997; she gave up her seat to serve as an Alabama Senator to replace the vacancy left behind by her husband. Figures was a US Democratic Party politician, and she failed to defeat State Senator Jeff Sessions from the US Republican Party during her 2008 Senate run.